Introduction

The masterpiece of T.S Eliot is a grand disconnection between classical and modern world. He very deeply and critically evaluates the inner of the man. This writing makes him an intellectual of man’s feelings and desires. It is one of the most effective poems which was written in the 20th century.

The impact of the poem on the society was in a very great form. This poem makes the reader feel that T.S Eliot also had the power of dialectical poetry and this poem also proves him like a great saint. Who had been sent to the world to purify the spirits?

The Wasteland Themes

Religion and Cult

It is exposed that man has lost his cult, and now has no interest to follow the rules and regulation of the religion. Religion had become a useless thing for him. According to the modern man, religion disallows them to be facilitated with the modern facilitations.

Bible has now become a very bore book for them and nothing more than it. Curiosity has been ended about the religion, and nobody wants to make research on it.

Gulf Between Past and Present

Past and present have had such a disconnection that it is felt now that the past was a separate world and the present is a separate world. The men have rudely cut the ropes which were the source of the connection to past and present. Impossibilities have been put in the way of the man to the past days. Past looks to be a dream and that is it.

Lost Culture

Culture is the recognition of a man. With the respect of the views of T.S Eliot about the modern man, culture has not vanished especially from the Christian communities. It’s not important to them what they are now and were they before.

Everyone wishes to have luxuries whether it is against their culture or to regenerate them. Because of these activities of the man the world has not only lost its cultures but has also lost the true colors of life. Tastelessness is everywhere.

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Anxiety

The man who was born in this world will have, no doubt, sadness, and grief. But T.S Eliot expresses that this sadness and this grief is because of giving up the past customs and rituals. The man is too much in tensions and has no time to solve their tensions.

Materialism

Past was full of happiness, and the present is full of materialistic approach. Money has now become the God of man, and always he is in search of money that how to earn it and after that how to spend it. Rich men in the world are respected everywhere, whereas poor people have no value even money is being worshipped in all aspects of life. The person who has a lot of money is considered to be a messiah.

Sex

An unravished girl has no importance in the present world. According to T.S Eliot nowadays a girl waits for her boyfriend on the beach and the boy reaches her, and they have sex with each other and complete their sexual lust and appetite. The girl or boy does not feel guilty for having sex without marriage. Even they feel proud after losing their purity. Lust for sex has become overcome.

Critics Views on The Wasteland

Some critics criticise T.S Eliot that exaggeration is a device in the literary world which has been used by him. He considers the past a dream world which never existed. If we study the complete of T.S Eliot’s Waste Land, we conclude that the past of the man was a heavenly life. Whereas struggles, hurdles, and controversies were there in the past which was to be solved by the man.